Rare photos of iconic moments in history

Rare photos of iconic moments in history - Photography, by definition, is essentially the technique of creating images by means of light exposure and fixing them onto a surface.

More than that, photos capture moments. With that in mind, we gathered images of historical moments, people, and facts that are part of our history.

Check out the gallery and see how incredible these images are!

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Congratulatory kiss - In January 1973, Maud Rabbits of Staines in Middlesex, England, receives a kiss from her husband, Ernest, after being awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for her work as a lollipop lady.

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Expectation - Anxious men at the Apollo 17 mission control center, approximately 15 minutes after its launch in December 1972.

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Present for The Beatles - The Beatles' press officer, Derek Taylor, is given a set of custom boomerangs by fan Jack Bonwell, who wanted to celebrate the band's Australian tour in July 1964.

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Evita Perón - Eva Perón, former political leader and wife of Argentinian President Juan Perón at the Presidential Palace, before the 141st Argentine Independence Day celebrations at the Colón Theater on May 30, 1951.

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Tribute to prisioners - Former prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp assemble in honor of the people who died in concentration camps in 1945.

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Conspiracy? - Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany, and Paul von Beneckendorff, the country's president, at the Tannenburg Memorial Parade in East Prussia in August 1933.

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Japanese official who looked like Hitler - Japanese army officer Hideki Tojo gives a speech at the Korakuen stadium in Tokyo, to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the conflict between Japan and China.

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Christmas together - During Christmastime in 1989, people cross the new boarder in front of the Brandenburg Gate in East Berlin to visit relatives on the other side of the country.

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A breach of hope - East Germans prepare to cross a breach in the Berlin Wall after the former East German government suspended restrictions on travel and emigration to the West on December 25, 1989.

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Who's scared of heights? - Mountaineer John Dunne hangs onto a rock, without ropes on June 1, 1989 in Ilkley, Yorkshire, England.

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Female fighter - An unknown young boxer poses for a photo circa 1935.

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Radio soap opera - A photo of a radio soap opera being recorded at the BBC radio studio, circa 1935. This format was very popular in the 1930s.

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Celebrity meet up - A meeting of stars: British actor Charlie Chaplin, American actress Paulette Goddard, and British tennis player Fred Perry have a chat, around 1935.

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Fun time - The "Whirl of the World" ride at the Wembley Exhibition amusement park in August, 1924.

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Dancing in the sky - American actor and dancer Fred Astaire dances on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London with his sister and dance partner, Adele.

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The star giving tips - George Herman Ruth, also known as "Babe" Ruth, an American baseball player who played for the New York Yankees, teaches a child how to hold a club at the Yankee Stadium.

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Fashionable knees - 'Younger Set' of Baltimore members in 1925 with their best friends' faces painted on their knees.

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Premier - Writer H.G. Wells and actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin gather at the Stoll Pictures office in London in 1921 to watch the new film, 'Kipps,' based on Wells's novel.

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KO - Heavyweight world champion Jack Dempsey falls out of the ring after being punched by fellow Argentinian champion Luis Angel Firpo during a fight at Polo Grounds in New York on September 14, 1923.

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Lido - Women pose for a photograph at Chiswick Baths, London, in May of 1920.

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Fans ask for a photo - Sisters Elizabeth, Helen, and Margaret Hay take a photo of movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin in September 1922.

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Training - British featherweight boxer Ben Callicot trains before a fight against British fighter Ernie Rice on April 11, 1921.

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Dance like an Egyptian - Canadian dancer Christina Dukette performs with an Egyptian-style costume in March 1923.

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Alienated - Mick Jagger looks left out of a conversation between handsome French actor Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull.

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Excentric - Salvador Dali, the Catalan painter known for his surrealist work, strolls with a somewhat exotic pet down the street in 1969.

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Bin Laden's family vacation - Osama bin Laden, a former terrorist leader and the founder of Al-Qaeda, with his family on vacation in Sweden in 1970.

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Hats - This picture was taken from the top of a building in New York in 1939. Hats were undoubtedly fashionable at the time!

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Family time - British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, known as the "Master of the Suspense," plays with his grandchildren in the snow in 1960.

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Snowball war survivors - Students from Princeton University, after a snowball fight in 1893.

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Child's play - Film directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg play with water guns on a film set in Sri Lanka in 1983.

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Bambi goes shopping - Award-winning Belgian actress and humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, in 1958.

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When technology arrives - Note the size of the five megabyte disk drive shipped by IBM in 1956.

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Haute couture in Russia - In 1956, models take all the glamour of French fashion designer Christian Dior to Russia.

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Do you have a lighter? - A citizen lights the cigar of English Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.

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Intocável - The seal on the tomb of Tutankhamen remained intact and untouched for 3,245 years. In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb, prompting speculations about the death of the pharaoh.

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Jailhouse rock - The American literary genius, Ernest Miller Hemingway, in prison after one of his parties.

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Titanic - The last picture of the Titanic at sea in 1912. The tragic story became popular after the successful 1997 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

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Soda - Men get the first glimpse of a bottle of Coca-Cola in France in 1950. Originally, Coca-Cola was used as medicine after its invention in the late 19th century by John Pemberton.

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Chair bridge - People improvise a bridge made of chairs to cross the street during a flood in Paris in 1924.

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Invention - The inventor in the fields of mechanical engineering and electrotechnology, Nikola Tesla, sits in his lab with the "magnifying transmitter," an electrical generator mechanism invented by him in 1891.

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Protest - Women protest against the law that forced them to wear the hijab after the Islamic Revolution.

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Smoke break - Two men smoke on top of the RCA's 69-story building at the Rockefeller Center complex in central New York in 1932.

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